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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kristensen, Charlotte Burup
• Myhr, Katrine Aagaard
• Grund, Frederik Fasth
• Vejlstrup, Niels
• Hassager, Christian
• Mattu, Raj
• Mogelvang, Rasmus

Titel

A new method to quantify left ventricular mass by 2D echocardiography

Ist Teil von

• Scientific reports, 2022-06, Vol.12 (1), p.9980-9980, Article 9980

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Increased left ventricular mass (LVM) is a strong independent predictor for adverse cardiovascular events, but conventional echocardiographic methods are limited by poor reproducibility and accuracy. We developed a novel method based on adding the mean wall thickness from the parasternal short axis view, to the left ventricular end-diastolic volume acquired using the biplane model of discs. The participants (n = 85) had various left ventricular geometries and were assessed using echocardiography followed immediately by cardiac magnetic resonance, as reference. We compared our novel two-dimensional (2D) method to various conventional one-dimensional (1D) and other 2D methods as well as the three-dimensional (3D) method. Our novel method had better reproducibility in intra-examiner [coefficients of variation (CV) 9% vs. 11-14%] and inter-examiner analysis (CV 9% vs. 10-20%). Accuracy was similar to the 3D method (mean difference ± 95% limits of agreement, CV): Novel: 2 ± 50 g, 15% vs. 3D: 2 ± 51 g, 16%; and better than the "linear" 1D method by Devereux (7 ± 76 g, 23%). Our novel method is simple, has considerable better reproducibility and accuracy than conventional "linear" 1D methods, and similar accuracy as the 3D-method. As the biplane model forms part of the standard echocardiographic protocol, it does not require specific training and provides a supplement to the modern echocardiographic report.